The more we volunteer or accept to fly on our OFF DAYS the less chance we have of seeing any improvement on our pay and conditions.
I recently spoke to someone in crew control and this person told me that they have a monumentous task every day to crew flights. I then asked whether this had been brought up to senior management? Pretty obvious question, I know!
The answer from management is, we have enough Pilots. So there you have it!
For as long as we say YES the show continues. I personally answer the phone and simply say NO THANKS, I have other plans, irrespective of what the trip offer happens to be! And let's face it, neither the overtime pay nor the call out pay is worth anything to get excited about!!
If however we all stand together and simply say NO! We stand to achieve a lot more in the future.
Latest rumour has the hold pool down to 40 pilots ONLY. Interesting times!
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